The observed uneven distribution of economic activity across space is influenced by
variation in exogenous geographical characteristics and endogenous interactions between …

This paper reviews recent research on geography and trade. One of the key empirical
findings over the last decade has been the role of geography in shaping the distributional …

Will COVID-19 end the urban renaissance that many cities have experienced since the
1980s? This essay selectively reviews the copious literature that now exists on the long-term …

This study uses a boundary design and propensity score methods to study the effects of the
1930s-era Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC)“redlining” maps on the long-run …

More than 100 natural disasters strike the United States every year, causing extensive
fatalities and damages. We construct the universe of US federally designated natural …

How do pandemics affect urban housing markets? This paper studies historical outbreaks of
the plague in 17th-century Amsterdam and cholera in 19th-century Paris to answer this …

This paper analyzes the effects of hurricane Sandy on the New York City housing market
using a large parcel-level dataset that contains all housing sales for 2003–2017. The …

How much of the spatial distribution of economic activity today is determined by history
rather than by geographic fundamentals? And if history matters for spatial allocations, does it …

Does economic activity move away from areas that are at high risk of recurring shocks? We
examine this question in the context of floods, which displaced more than 650 million people …

Spatial economics aims to explain why there are peaks and troughs in the spatial
distribution of wealth and people, from the international and regional to the urban and local …